What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
The historian’s distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey’s Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
They didn’t give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. – Jon Kabat.
I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.
When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.
Group meditation according to Jon Kabat.
Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can’t we be a humanitarian superpower?